Summary

Trump plans to lift the Biden administration’s freeze on supplying 2,000-pound bombs to Israel and reverse sanctions against Israeli settlers.

  • WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works
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    21 hours ago

    Where do you draw the line? The problem with “vote Blue no matter who” is that you give the Democrats more and more license to drift further and further right.

    Kamala thought wrongly that she could completely abandon the progressive base. She fully embraced conservative positioning on Israel, the US border, and other issues. She ran a right wing campaign, compromising issue after issue to appeal to centrist Republicans.

    Kamala’s degeneracy was only possible because of the attitude you espouse. Because as long as progressives are willing to “vote Blue no matter who,” there is nothing to prevent Democrats from drifting ever-further to the right.

    The modern political landscape exists precisely because of the fact that for decades, progressives have been voting “Blue no matter who.” Democrats haven’t had to work hard to secure their base; they’ve taken them for granted. This has allowed Democrats to slip further to the right. As Democrats have slipped further right, Republicans have responded by moving into outright Fascism.

    You are unwilling to ever hold Democrats accountable. And by doing so, you guarantee that eventually the presidential race will be “KKK vs neo-Nazis,” as Democrats themselves drift into Fascism.

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      20 hours ago

      You’re mixing up cause and effect

      Yes it’s not the best strategy to appeal to the right, but the truth is their policies were more popular, Trump didn’t win on any tangible proposal, he won because of people staying home because they didn’t think he’d be that dangerous + people voting for Trump because the were convinced he’d be the one to deliver the policies they wanted (often the democrat’s policies which Trump took credit for) + straight propaganda from billionaire owned newspapers

      The real fix isn’t changing the policies and all that, it’s better outreach and showing how their actions have directly helped people and how Trump achieved nothing positive

      Also is very very weird when Biden has been the most progressive US president ever to talk about the whole party slipping to the right.

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        18 hours ago

        “Right” is relative to cultural median. Trump isn’t a more progressive Republican than past candidates just because he’s scapegoating trans people instead of gay people.

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      19 hours ago

      Im not going to refrence every point you made. I do agree with a lot of it.

      I suppose this is my line: Now is the time for the 3rd party conversations, and actual action. Not two months before a general election. Not one 3rd party candidate put the work in this last four years, they just suddenly pop up right before the election with nothing in thier moving van. They were just on the street corner asking for money. Where are they now?

      The R’s and D’s are where they are partly because they’ve spent so long putting the work into having a political party. For better or worse.